Sarah Rosen Identity

As soon as children are born, their journey through losing their personal identity begins. They are given names like Equality, Liberty, or Union, names that at first glance seem to cause no harm. The rulers give these names in an attempt to showcase the positive outcomes of collectivism. In

Everybody in the society has an identity. No one is born with identity. People work hard, gets education, gets job and by contributing to the society, they create their own identity. It is the self-image of who one is. As an example, if a person is helping the society by providing education in schools, he or she has an identity as a teacher. This identity does not just belong to them automatically. Their motivation of working hard, education status, having the dream carrier and dedication to the world defines themselves to the society. But if someone gets eliminated from all these opportunity to prove themselves in the society just because having a different ethnic name, it becomes hard to achieve the success and creating identity. When a baby is born, its' parent want to name their baby according to their ethnicity, culture and religion, so that, their culture can be passed to further future. They might stay unaware about the fact that, having an ethnic name in the United States may eliminate their child from his or her future. The way identity is shaped in such a way today by culture, society and environment that if a person has an ethnic or black sounding name, he or she faces a lot of impediment situations. This is because their name highlights or marks them in different identity, which creates barriers; despite identity and its marks it is hard to achieve total personal and professional success.

Dr. Brennen, a forensic anthropologist, finds remains all throughout the book in different scenarios. She finds human bones among lots of bear bones in a bag in the woods and she examines the remains of a baby found in a wood stove, in a plane crash, privy, and a submerged car. She briefly goes into discussion of what she does as a forensic anthropologist. She uses her knowledge of bones to identify the cause and manner of death in victims that are too compromised for autopsy; meaning there is little to no tissue left for a proper autopsy. (Reichs 2004:16). She also uses various methods throughout the book to identify the sex, age, stature, and ancestry, as well as securing an identification of the victim.

The identity of the deceased is an important part of postmortem examination, for various reasons. These include ethical and humanitarian need to know how an individual died and who was it, especially for the information to living relatives. Identifying individual’s age, biological sex, and stature which eventually generates a biological profile for previously unknown individual. These examinations are done by forensic anthropologist when dealing with bones of the deceased individual to aid law enforcement in establishing profile on the unidentified remains.

The article published by the Forensic Science Central in the United Kingdom (2012), identified the various features of the human skeleton that can aid in determining the sex of the individual. Some of the features includes, but are not limited to, the pelvic bone, which is wider in female than males, and the skull, which has various ways to identify the sex. The skull is said to be equally beneficial to the pelvic bone in establishing an individual’s sex. Research shows that the skull of a male will have a more rounded supraorbital margin (brow ridge), and a bony glabella (the portion of bone between the eyebrows and nose). The male’s mastoid process that sits behind the ear is larger, and their mandible is more squared than in females. The nasal cavity of a male is longer and narrower. Oppositely, the female supraorbital margin is much sharper, and her glabella is much smoother. The female’s mastoid process is smaller in size, and the mandible is less squared. The research also stated that the female nasal cavity will be slighty wider, and pear-shaped. Another factor that may be beneficial in determining the sex of skeletal remains is racial background. The research highlighted that if the racial background is known, the sex would be easier to be

There is much evidence that the dead can tell tales. Even though they are deceased, they leave many clues behind for forensic anthropologists to find their identity. Forensic anthropologists can figure out information of the victim from their bones such as how old they were, if they were male or female, their race, their stature, and other individual characteristics. Another way forensic anthropologists can identify the victim is by facial reconstruction and photo superimposition.

Starting from birth you are given an identity of who you are and what you have the potential to be without even being able to mumble your first words. You have labels placed upon you that determine who you are, not due to the fact that you may have caused your mother pain during pregnancy and they labeled u a rowdy kid before entering the world, but because of your family’s position in the world of stratified societies.

As stated above, anthropologist determine the sex of the remains. In order to do so, they need to know the differences between male and female skeletal materials. Over the years the human body has changed. One way anthropologist can determine the remains is cranial shape. “American white skulls have evolved by expanding in height and length”. (Godde pg. 1). Males are more affected by nutritional stress than females, this can be seen through body size. A nuchal crest relates to the neck muscles. In females “nuchal crests enlarged, while glabella has decreased. In males, supraorbitalis dull, while glabella decreased.

their body decomposed, in trying to identify the person we run into a problem. As we

We are all given a name, a name that we will carry on throughout our life, and that one day we might pass down to our future generations. It is the identity we receive, that nobody can share because our name is a part of us, and we own it. Names not only identify who we are; but they are a reflection of our actions.

Determining the sex and age of human skeletal remains is an important analysis that forensic anthropologists perform to build a biological profile. In a forensic investigation, a biological profile holds great value along different avenues of the investigation. To exert such benefits, standards utilised by the forensic anthropologist must perform to high levels of accuracy. In this study, one novice and one expert participant examined morphological features of the skull on a modern UK sample. Generally, the overall estimation of sex when multiple features were combined, results showed to be determined with high accuracy, however some individual morphology features displayed very low accuracy. Predominately, the expert determined the

4. examine remains for trauma to determinine what happened to the deceased individual at the time of death

In the legal field, the identification of skeletal remains is important in solving a crime, but moreover, it also serves as support for other aspects, such as the case of an inheritance, marital status of a person for legal purposes, as well as humanitarian reasons, in case of accidents, natural disasters, wars, where people want to know what really happened to their loved ones, instead of the uncertainty whether they are alive or not, people would prefer to bury them and grieve before continuing with the open

A forensic Anthropology studies bodies and determines who the person is and they determines the cause of the person death. When someone dies they call a forensic Anthropology to finger out why this person die. When skeletonized remains are discovered, one needs to establish first if the bones are human. If so, the sex, race, age, stature, weight, and any pathology of the newly acquired skeleton must be established in order to make an identification of the remains, determine manner and cause of death and, if homicide, identify the murderer. According to forensic medicine”Forensic anthropologists are "bone detectives" who help police solve complex cases involving unidentified human remains. The techniques which physical

Our identities works in a recursive relation that keep our identities constantly evolving. Our biological traits determine our physical development: from the color of our eyes to the height we’ll eventually reach. Our physical appearances conjure a first-impression with everyone we meet, and we become labeled and categorized without any notion or consent, yet whichever labels